BUTLER GUILLOTINE

The ambience and aesthetic are really good ! Definitely worth checking out !

WHAT A VIBE

A weird, beautifully made little point and click adventure with a complex narrative that's bound to stay with you for quite a while. It's pretty short, but that's not a flaw at all when it's contents are bound to linger in your mind as much as they do. I also think the jog the first protagonist does is really funny and I love it.

I was gifted this from a friend after I checked out the demo! I was NOT disappointed, this game is so unique and I had a wonderful time playing it!

The game is ok, if your looking for an artsy abstract game, this is for you

Had a great time going through this game, there's some kind of mastery in the composition that blew my mind, i hardly recommend it

From one (former) dev to another, I totally get having your vision. Butler Guillotine is definitely a game of vision and clearly most people who played it like the vision. My mere 25 minutes of playtime felt like an hour. The dialogue, while all text, will not let you click to the next bit when a cutscene is playing. Cutscenes could easily have been twice as short. The writing was fine but the pacing of the cutscenes were so slow that anything that could of had any bite was lost on my impatience. I do not need nearly 10 seconds to read a single word. In those 25 minutes I did not understand anything about the plot or goal. Besides that for some reason picking up the gun forces me to kill myself, which my character refuses to acknowledge. Shock lacks value when it amounts to nothing. I wandered around, talked to a few butlers, and sat through a few painfully slow cutscenes. One of my biggest issues with video games is video games that make me wait. I don't want to wait. I want to play a video game. Cutscenes? Fine, either have them tightly choreographed, or let me click to read through the text. This game does neither. The gameplay? Walking through bare halls, forced to find the specific NPCs I must talk to in a specific order to acquire the items needed to progress the game. No puzzles. No mechanics tied into the narrative. Just wasting my time. I've enjoyed many an artistic game. Journey, INSIDE, LIMBO, to name a few. I've even enjoyed a few adventure games, such as the Broken Sword Series, Machinarium, or Silent Age. All of three of those games have a much better first 25 minutes, never mind hours. You can have a vision. You can make an art piece. I've done that myself. You can also make a good video game. I'm sure of it.

I don't know what to say, my brain is on the floor [in a good way] This game is indeed an incredible adventure, I'm still trying to process the plot. I really like the vibe, the music, the humor, the character's stories ! And at a moment, you have to let go the "why??" in your mind and just go. I know that game was made with lots of love, you feel it !! Don't miss the "Extras" too. Bye. i have something personal to process about woman and skirt. and maybe alcohol.

This is an incredible game, an absolutely exceptional experience. It is surreal and beautiful, sad and also charming with unexpected humour. The horror elements worked so well, grotesque, disturbing, while still being sombre. A weird, theatrical and artistic masterpiece. When I left a review for Lorelei and the Laser Eyes I wrote that it was the most stylish game I have ever played. This may top that. Or at least match it. It is simply gorgeous. And while the gameplay of L&tLE is full of complex puzzles, Butler Guillotine's point and click exploration and narrative journey did remind me stylistically and thematically of that game in places. The cut scenes can be slow paced and languid, and the walk/run speed may not be to everyone's taste. But for me this was truly a visual, narrative, storytelling and classical musical treat through and through. I really loved it.

It was a really good and weird game. I think I picked up most of what was going on. But still left me with some questions at the end. Only thing I'd recommend is that the creator adds a copyright free version of music for streamers. There was one song in Act One that Youtube gave me a copyright notice for... 😅 https://youtu.be/WVqD3Tie7-g?si=JKtM-KxMCVAQkNYl